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A Better Way To Stamp

In the
December 2005 column , I suggested a way to place a stamp (
Prepared By: Reviewed By: ) in a spreadsheet. Reader
Allison A. Schultz, CPA, CFO of Southern Aluminum, Magnolia, Ark.,
suggests an alternative method. After creating the stamp in Excel,
highlight it and press Shift+Edit, bringing up this menu:

Click on Copy Picture, which evokes this screen:

Then click on As shown on screen and
Picture and OK .

You now have two options: If you want to paste the stamp
immediately, place your cursor where you want the stamp to appear and
click on Edit and Paste Special . If
you want to paste it later, highlight it and copy it (Ctrl+C). That
will store it in the Clipboard, which you can evoke later by clicking
on Edit , Office Clipboard .

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